Kubernetes Deployment Scaling

Get all deployments

kubectl get deployments

Get all pods

kubectl get pods

Scale the deployment

kubectl scale deployment --replicas=4 MY_DEPLOYMENT_NAME

Check the result of the scaling with

kubectl get deployments
kubectl get pods -o wide

Get the deployment events at the end of the output of

kubectl describe deployments/MY_DEPLOYMENT_NAME

To scale down the replicas, execute the scale command again

kubectl scale deployments/MY_DEPLOYMENT_NAME --replicas=2